Ultrazoom Lens Weighs a Ton, Costs a Wad

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Ultrazoom Lens Weighs a Ton, Costs a Wad

Just in case your back and wallet have been feeling a little* too* healthy lately, Amazon is taking advance orders for Sigma's humongous new 200-500mm zoom lens. Aside from being faster than a speeding gazelle, The Lens Formerly Known as Sigzilla is a full 2 feet long, weighs 35 pounds and sells from Amazon for a whopping $25,000. (A rather generous discount, it turns out, from the $34,000 list price.)

The whopper comes in Nikon and Canon mounts and is clad all over in a green plastic armor methinks could easily make it mistaken for a rocket launcher if one happened to be in the vicinity of a nervous Blackwater contractor.